Analysis

  • max time kernel
    111s
  • max time network
    125s
  • platform
    windows10-2004_x64
  • resource
    win10v2004-20241007-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win10v2004-20241007-enlocale:en-usos:windows10-2004-x64system
  • submitted
    10-12-2024 09:50

General

  • Target

    a6429d9778a93254c7387cf588619a2635ed97108558a122de885aad25a57eb7N.exe

  • Size

    2.1MB

  • MD5

    6261ec3f13e1cc6ae25ee8942db137b0

  • SHA1

    20629ed3f752869dc4980827291bf3064333405f

  • SHA256

    a6429d9778a93254c7387cf588619a2635ed97108558a122de885aad25a57eb7

  • SHA512

    ed292a77db5e9926cbaa247e449a4019776b2452d2e8cdadfcea4c3d7551372793b2a1125b44cfd5106d2b03ff178041d413750ee81bfc42d7a3252a934b51f1

  • SSDEEP

    24576:2TbBv5rUyXVpz/IPMofzXxgF5X1u1seTK44vmrUcSgjBYsRX8TGxj4fY3D5K7Tqb:IBJp0PbsCk44v0y4BYgAGxrNKvdVT6

Malware Config

Signatures

  • DcRat

    DarkCrystal(DC) is a new .NET RAT active since June 2019 capable of loading additional plugins.

  • Dcrat family
  • Process spawned unexpected child process 18 IoCs

    This typically indicates the parent process was compromised via an exploit or macro.

  • Checks computer location settings 2 TTPs 3 IoCs

    Looks up country code configured in the registry, likely geofence.

  • Executes dropped EXE 2 IoCs
  • Reads user/profile data of web browsers 3 TTPs

    Infostealers often target stored browser data, which can include saved credentials etc.

  • Drops file in Program Files directory 4 IoCs
  • Drops file in Windows directory 3 IoCs
  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

    Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 3 IoCs

    Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.

  • System Network Configuration Discovery: Internet Connection Discovery 1 TTPs 1 IoCs

    Adversaries may check for Internet connectivity on compromised systems.

  • Modifies registry class 2 IoCs
  • Runs ping.exe 1 TTPs 1 IoCs
  • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task 1 TTPs 18 IoCs

    Schtasks is often used by malware for persistence or to perform post-infection execution.

  • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses 64 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 16 IoCs
  • Uses Task Scheduler COM API 1 TTPs

    The Task Scheduler COM API can be used to schedule applications to run on boot or at set times.

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\a6429d9778a93254c7387cf588619a2635ed97108558a122de885aad25a57eb7N.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\a6429d9778a93254c7387cf588619a2635ed97108558a122de885aad25a57eb7N.exe"
    1⤵
    • Checks computer location settings
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Modifies registry class
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:3532
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WScript.exe
      "C:\Windows\System32\WScript.exe" "C:\ESD\UST9UxLQoHNIIFaYLHo0xhIRlgCNcLzoLb106m2nL.vbe"
      2⤵
      • Checks computer location settings
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:3744
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
        C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\ESD\bQzfgHSGdt2kLcLlkun74cHPltHDXr5Sp886hMeTP.bat" "
        3⤵
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
        PID:4564
        • C:\ESD\Winver.exe
          "C:\ESD/Winver.exe"
          4⤵
          • Checks computer location settings
          • Executes dropped EXE
          • Drops file in Program Files directory
          • Drops file in Windows directory
          • Modifies registry class
          • Suspicious behavior: EnumeratesProcesses
          • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
          • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
          PID:2660
          • C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
            "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe" /C "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\EOPKDC2t5c.bat"
            5⤵
            • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
            PID:3864
            • C:\Windows\system32\chcp.com
              chcp 65001
              6⤵
                PID:928
              • C:\Windows\system32\PING.EXE
                ping -n 10 localhost
                6⤵
                • System Network Configuration Discovery: Internet Connection Discovery
                • Runs ping.exe
                PID:1648
              • C:\Recovery\WindowsRE\SppExtComObj.exe
                "C:\Recovery\WindowsRE\SppExtComObj.exe"
                6⤵
                • Executes dropped EXE
                • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
                PID:2884
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "IdleI" /sc MINUTE /mo 11 /tr "'C:\ESD\Idle.exe'" /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:3672
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "Idle" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\ESD\Idle.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:1696
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "IdleI" /sc MINUTE /mo 8 /tr "'C:\ESD\Idle.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:3100
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "taskhostwt" /sc MINUTE /mo 5 /tr "'C:\Program Files\MSBuild\taskhostw.exe'" /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:3192
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "taskhostw" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Program Files\MSBuild\taskhostw.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:2980
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "taskhostwt" /sc MINUTE /mo 11 /tr "'C:\Program Files\MSBuild\taskhostw.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:5040
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "smsss" /sc MINUTE /mo 12 /tr "'C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Mail\smss.exe'" /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:4320
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "smss" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Mail\smss.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:1940
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "smsss" /sc MINUTE /mo 10 /tr "'C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Mail\smss.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:2648
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "SppExtComObjS" /sc MINUTE /mo 10 /tr "'C:\Recovery\WindowsRE\SppExtComObj.exe'" /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:4124
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "SppExtComObj" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Recovery\WindowsRE\SppExtComObj.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:3540
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "SppExtComObjS" /sc MINUTE /mo 9 /tr "'C:\Recovery\WindowsRE\SppExtComObj.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:844
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "OfficeClickToRunO" /sc MINUTE /mo 14 /tr "'C:\Windows\addins\OfficeClickToRun.exe'" /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:372
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "OfficeClickToRun" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\Windows\addins\OfficeClickToRun.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:940
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "OfficeClickToRunO" /sc MINUTE /mo 11 /tr "'C:\Windows\addins\OfficeClickToRun.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:4640
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "WinverW" /sc MINUTE /mo 11 /tr "'C:\ESD\Winver.exe'" /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:728
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "Winver" /sc ONLOGON /tr "'C:\ESD\Winver.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:4792
    • C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe
      schtasks.exe /create /tn "WinverW" /sc MINUTE /mo 9 /tr "'C:\ESD\Winver.exe'" /rl HIGHEST /f
      1⤵
      • Process spawned unexpected child process
      • Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
      PID:4536

    Network

    MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v15

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    Downloads

    • C:\ESD\UST9UxLQoHNIIFaYLHo0xhIRlgCNcLzoLb106m2nL.vbe

      Filesize

      222B

      MD5

      8decf43a92645d8ba4b81696c5e7b1ae

      SHA1

      dcc9ca8b24e3adf7568eb0f6b7f5cd27f039faf6

      SHA256

      6ad34bd4e803fad802052423aeab64f4c60dd3ee55a3167425b9640ae24bfea1

      SHA512

      72e44773f484d2e69ebd41cc555d9a57c833b3930e1f3b0326c90882035e0dc5fb54e8d4ded22cf9f2d28fb502b37b133b7c1c9f9d89b8c21857b569c51ebc17

    • C:\ESD\Winver.exe

      Filesize

      1.8MB

      MD5

      d9ce1032fee5365065a78bbff7267883

      SHA1

      4c7471b47d4151908dd204303421d7c64cf4c5c6

      SHA256

      65d26e7c0b856832e88efefe5c2a9e767fb2a7345715bbd0a6e10f9ac2afb520

      SHA512

      0455364fa91c07da6fecbfb3e3fdbbbcb909e3176b5b151e3653f8b8ebffc02e14fb3471245df479b83f90cd2e1142bcff82b80555cfb3df113696b2925d9435

    • C:\ESD\bQzfgHSGdt2kLcLlkun74cHPltHDXr5Sp886hMeTP.bat

      Filesize

      57B

      MD5

      d1a4f1e326e7dfca62327ea69446dc7c

      SHA1

      253e264c90cbd15836d8c3a1eab3c26756d94047

      SHA256

      ea091556a5dbab314a6029817a9db64f9b8adc7afb476bbbb11aec0c227f0de2

      SHA512

      3d4624c169297b50329a4e13f3f559a7a1f02112f6482e45cfba747dad11c6e6642f1411cec5e92d7890f86fb38702f48c75fec4d24332d43484ad7b9dbf29c8

    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\EOPKDC2t5c.bat

      Filesize

      166B

      MD5

      372c4b163c603614ee5875c55dee422c

      SHA1

      144c931e3b39fbd6a24891a0c9f705b4d3d8f2ff

      SHA256

      f5b3854b3d01b7bbe2a59da281feaf408ec192f73f4c5160e8679154350745cb

      SHA512

      4e921c6242a8bbbe1e7e3bcd3110355115ab9036cfb3a234294d8ae2b870f8796d43a1de643de78902fd6e66e69c670c0b0cde10aff6e3bab86c7c6421212177

    • memory/2660-17-0x00000000033E0000-0x00000000033FC000-memory.dmp

      Filesize

      112KB

    • memory/2660-15-0x0000000003280000-0x000000000328E000-memory.dmp

      Filesize

      56KB

    • memory/2660-13-0x0000000000E90000-0x0000000001064000-memory.dmp

      Filesize

      1.8MB

    • memory/2660-18-0x000000001C060000-0x000000001C0B0000-memory.dmp

      Filesize

      320KB

    • memory/2660-20-0x0000000003400000-0x0000000003418000-memory.dmp

      Filesize

      96KB

    • memory/2660-37-0x000000001C2F0000-0x000000001C399000-memory.dmp

      Filesize

      676KB

    • memory/2660-38-0x000000001C7A0000-0x000000001C841000-memory.dmp

      Filesize

      644KB

    • memory/2660-39-0x000000001C850000-0x000000001C9F9000-memory.dmp

      Filesize

      1.7MB

    • memory/2660-12-0x00007FFEC8B93000-0x00007FFEC8B95000-memory.dmp

      Filesize

      8KB

    • memory/2884-47-0x000000001B820000-0x000000001B922000-memory.dmp

      Filesize

      1.0MB

    • memory/2884-48-0x000000001BE70000-0x000000001BF19000-memory.dmp

      Filesize

      676KB